Anthropic taps nonprofits METR and SecureBio to help assess risks and safety practices

Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026.

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Anthropic on Thursday announced it's working with the nonprofits METR and SecureBio, and engaging in discussions with additional organizations, including Hugging Face, as part of its commitment to embed independent evaluators within the company.

The artificial intelligence lab pledged to work closely with third-party evaluators when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published his proposal to slow down the pace of model development last month. Amodei said the evaluators would help "verify" Anthropic's adherence to safety practices, and the company selected Accenture to serve as its first partner days later.

Independent evaluators like METR, which stands for Model Evaluation and Threat Research, occupied a quiet corner of the multi-trillion-dollar AI industry prior to Amodei's proposal. But as concerns have mounted over whether AI companies can safeguard their models, evaluators have taken on outsized importance.

President Donald Trump encouraged AI companies to "partner with an independent external auditor or evaluator" as part of a voluntary accord he presented in late September. Anthropic's Amodei signed the accord, as did top executives at Google, Meta, OpenAI, SpaceX and Nvidia.

"We're embedding evaluators voluntarily, and we believe every frontier AI company should do the same," Anthropic said Thursday.

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